Identifying most probably culprit

[reaven]

few weeks ago HDD start making a scrathing sound and windows stop recognizing the drive but the BIOS and MHDD does.
Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 250GB
SN# Y61L8HBE
FW# YAR41BW0
model# 6Y250P0062211

noise http://dl023.zshare.net/stream/1ef777e0fd84d58598f68009f5badfac/1235622793/56189075/Recording1.wav

I heard this could be a Head crash, want to know if this the most probably cause of this.

thanks

[BlackST]

Everything could be. Need to recover data?

[reaven]

I want to ?

read a few guides about head swap, am thinking on trying.

[thatdellguy]

Everyone treats HD recovery like its the Matrix. Download a few articles into your brain and your an instant professional...

Guessing at the failure works about 1% of the time....

[reaven]

I am in no way a professional and i never state that, but i like to learn and like any professional before been one they learn study and practice a lot.

And is not like I have national security documents in there, so if they are gone they are gone if not I would be happy to learn something new and have my data back.

[HDD Spaz]

your lesson should be to remember to back up not how to repair hard drives. If getting the data back will make you happy, pay a pro to recover it. Happiness somestimes costs.

[BlackST]

Also if you want to learn pay the university or training fee. This costs, too.

[Zorb]

Some of us did start as electronics hobbyists though. It didn't take much to get into low level stuff on old XT MFM drives. You could build your own equipment for those, amps, filters, and the like.